TALK: Complaints and I-Mean Prefaced Utterances: Repair to Include I-Mean
Doug Maynard (Sociology, Univ. of Wisconsin)
Friday, May 2 / 1:30 PM
Phelps 2536
More a workshop than a talk, this session explores the use of I-mean prefaced utterances in relation to complaint sequences in conversation. Maynard will bring three instances in which a speaker, in the context of complaint talk, starts an utterance that would appear to embellish the complaint and that does not have an I-mean preface, and then, before completing the utterance, repairs it to include an I-mean preface. Such repairs may give some clues as to the work that I-mean does in relation to the talk in which the I-mean preface is embedded.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Language, Interaction, and Social Organization RFG, and the Departments of Education, Sociology and Linguistics.
